The subs they'd be losing from having a long tier aren't worth keeping anyway. Hope it lasts 10-12 months, as to give everyone and their alts to enjoy it to the fullest.

Not everybody enjoys the same content for a whole year. I'm an altoholic myself, and even I get bored from doing the ToT LFRs on my alts (if I even do them because they're not as much fun as they used to be).

Tbh the current tier and season are already too long. I can't even get myself to log in anymore without logging out 10 minutes later.

Anything longer than 3 months will probably be too long. If they push 6 months you will see massive sub losses again, and it seems lately less and less people are coming back. Hell I got a free 7 day offer from Blizzard in the mail, and couldn't be arsed to use it. I might come back for last patch, but I'm not super excited since once again Alliance is just along for the ride, and the epic quest line ends with capes and effects that don't even appear to match the tier gear. I'll probably just watch the cutscenes on youtube.

If you aren't happy with your progression speed find a new guild. You're right, Summer hasn't been forgiving to 25's, there are plenty of open spots that you can fill. Don't want to leave your guild? Deal with new content coming out faster than you might like.

I honestly hope SoO is out for 8 months at the absolute max. I don't want another Dragon Soul, ICC was 100 times better at the end of its year long run than DS was even halfway in.

I just recently joined a new guild 3 months ago. I shouldn't have to find a guild when I would rather work for it instead of joining a guild with content all on farm. There is zero fun in that and then I feel like I did nothing to work towards that. ToT should have another month or two at the latest remaining at this point. Unlike other people, I am not a guild-hopping scumbag and just leave like a breeze and take advantage of guilds when they don't fit my requirements anymore (not going to get into detail but, its people like that -- that ruin some raiding teams, when they lack commitment to a team and cause guilds to not progress as much). I'm in my second raiding guild ever and I was in my last guild for over 3 years.

I do deal with it but, I have every right to feel rushed and complain about it. LFR has shortened the length of tiers. I never had an issue with ICC when it was out ... and I think the reason people got so burnt out on DS was because of the introduction of LFR and the nerf/accessibility for alts. I got burnt out with LFR fast but I never got bored of the heroic progression, even after I full cleared it with two guilds on 2 characters.

Honestly if they put in all this work and SoO gets cut off at 5-7 months, i'll feel very jipped. I'd expect at least 8-9 months out of the tier, especially if it ends up being challenging.

I don't see how you're rushed. Tier 15 will likely be 6 months at least in length. Tier 14, which had more bosses was 5 months in length. I think they learned their lesson with Ulduar being rushed since it only lasted 4 months before TOC took it over.

They will not be able to put anything out to stop the sub loss so not sure if it matters how long the tier goes.. The massive sub loses will start the week after final lfr comes out. For a lot of people beating SoO in lfr is there end game, so when that happens not a whole lot of reason to keep playing.

They know full well that people drop when things drag on too long, and have stated as much. Hence why they've pushed content faster. I wouldn't even be surprised if SOO isn't the final tier of MoP. Expect 5.4 to have a 6-8 month shelf life, imo.

Why the hell do people trick us into clicking sort of interesting thread titles and then it's about losing subs (yes it is, especially if you start with how you DON'T want to go into the sub issue) Know what? If you don't wanna go there...don't bring it up.

Because subs are lower than ever before and they have been going lower. The reason why I brought it up is for 2 reasons.
1) Is it enough pressure for them to not make SoO last for year and
2) Its social experiment, I cant really lie I put it there because if you mention "wow" and "subs" the thread will get more attention. Otherwise it would probably have died on page 2

"In the tone of their complaint you can see a mind already made up. Instead, it’s about affirmation they expected and didn’t receive. It’s not about the game getting universal praise from every writer reviewing it. It’s about getting universal praise for buying it."

LOL... c'mon guys... as if they would make you wait a year for new content just to save money! have they ever done that in the past? nope, I reckon they wont give you one raid for an entire year, my guess would be 10-11 months... so sit back and relax because we all know deep down in our heart of hearts that Blizzard loves their fans more than that green paper stuff.

They've done it before and will probably do it again, I reckon SoO will be roughly 10 months. I bet also they will have another annual pass.

Not everybody enjoys the same content for a whole year. I'm an altoholic myself, and even I get bored from doing the ToT LFRs on my alts (if I even do them because they're not as much fun as they used to be).

Tbh the current tier and season are already too long. I can't even get myself to log in anymore without logging out 10 minutes later.

The current tier has only been out for 4 months.. if you want content to come out that fast you may as well not play MMOs.

As for SoO, there's no way in hell it will last a year. Most I could see is 10 months, but my prediction would be 8. Personally, I think 8 would be a pretty good number. Gives me enough time to clear SoO on heroic, get the mount for everyone, and take a nice break before going hard in the next expansion.

My guess would be until March next year. In between SoO and the new expansion, there will be some smaller additions to the game like more scenarios and maybe some battlegrounds. Maybe something as a prelude to the next big event in the world of warcraft.

August - 5.4 - SoO
October - 5.5 - Daily Zone / Lore patch / 1 boss raid / prelude to next expansion
November - Blizzcon - New expansion announcement + beta released a few weeks / days later, possibly even released during the opening ceremony or immediately after blizzcon, possibly annual pass with beta access again
February - 6.0 expac

That seems pretty reasonable to me (give or take a month or two). I can definitely see them doing another annual pass with Beta access too. It pretty much guarantees them subs for a year and a lot of people like me will probably sign up again.

With that said I think it's a safe bet to say that the Siege or Orgrimmar will last between 6 - 8 months.